Mike’s Moment of Sight: A Little Bit of Vision . . . Although Mike could “see” from the moment the bandages were removed from his eye (below), he still had trouble identifying objects, especially stationary ones. Mike tells this story of a walk down an unfamiliar street in Barcelona, Spain: “I picked my way through some street construction. I saw a fluorescent green object in my path and tapped it with my cane. It wasn’t hard like a sign so I tapped it a bit harder as I still couldn’t figure out visually what it was. I was startled as a burst of Spanish profanity came from the workman bent over digging out a hole in the sidewalk. He didn’t take too kindly to me poking him in the behind with my cane. A little bit of vision can be dangerous sometimes.” (May, 2004)
Florence Low